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Re: how to convert a string to a symbol?
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Joost Diepenmaat |
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Re: how to convert a string to a symbol? |
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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:25:37 +0200 |
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sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:
> What you say is close to what I want, I do want to turn a string into
> a sexp,but the string could from the minibuffer or somewhere else.
> for example, I want to write a function , it takes a string as
> argument, the function could turn the string to a sexp, eval it, and
> return the result.
You want to take a look at (read-from-string) or possibly some of the
other read* functions.
also: please don't top post. it really makes your posts harder to read.
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